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Teaching students to care isn’t just good for classroom culture—it’s good for learning.

Putting empathy into action is a daily calling for Kelly Wickham Hurst.

Simulations as professional development? This school administrator argues they can foster empathy for students with learning differences.

Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to build empathy into their practice with a few adjustments to the things they already do.

This after-school educator developed a creative set of discussion questions and prompts to help students talk about empathy. Her tools? A young adult novel, the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework and Perspectives for a Diverse America.

If we look into the heart of bullying, what we often find are deficits of emotional control and empathy. Teaching mindfulness can help.

Ricky was a big ball of anger. In all fairness, he had plenty to be angry about. The first years of his life were pretty rough. Now, at age 7, home life was starting to normalize. But sometimes just getting through the day without throwing a chair was enough for him to handle, let alone any sort of academic rigor. He had a hard time seeing others’ points of view. He was definitely my most challenging student and constantly in need of my attention.